At the occasion of its upcoming centenary conference, The German Association for Mission Studies critically revisits postcolonial approaches in Mission Studies. For the past decades postcolonialism has instigated innovative knowledge production in diverse areas such as mission history, inter-religious exchanges, and theories of World Christianity or intercultural theologies. While postcolonial theory opened up horizons in Mission Studies in many respects, academic discourse has also shown certain limits of postcolonial studies. Therefore the call for papers on “Postcolonialsm – what next?” invites for promising perspectives of postcolonial studies in Intercultural Theology and Mission Studies.

With this panel The German Association for Mission Studies addresses specifically young scholars. It aims at establishing and supporting strong academic networks. High-profile, interdisciplinary proposals are very welcome.